Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes

I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.

Paul Newman

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• I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Smart
  • Surprise
  • Known

• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Live
  • Death
  • Look

• I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Why
  • Want

• No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • High
  • Going
  • Rises

• The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

  

  Orson Welles
  • American
  • Reality
  • Process

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.

  

  J. Cole
  • Trying
  • School
  • True

• In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.

  

  Cam
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be able to do is focus on the linkages, say, between asset markets and the macro economy without having to model everything at the same time.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Focus

• I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that people don't know about.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Music
  • Interesting

• I can write a song about my hero Che Guevara and call it 'Song for Che.'

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Song
  • Hero

• But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Life
  • Important
  • Vision

• I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Party
  • Single

• It's fun to be sarcastic, but now I'm able to express myself in a way that's much more sincere.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Fun
  • Sarcastic

• Had it not been for 'The Apprentice' and Donald Trump, I wouldn't have met my wife through an interview with 'E! News.'

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Wife
  • Trump

• If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?

  

  Christine Pelosi
  • Why
  • Morning
  • Safety

• Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • Soul
  • Beautiful
  • Faith

• I always wonder about people's history and their lives, especially people that are a little bit more distant, who obviously have had some kind of a thing, and you know there's some reason why they're not able to connect. It's not because they don't want to. They don't have the ability.

  

  Annette Bening
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• I wasn't one of those girls who sang at church.

  

  SZA
  • Church

• I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Energy
  • Wrong
  • Explain

• Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Today
  • Media
  • Sheep

• The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?'

  

  Bruno Heller
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Guy

• I don't want to do just "Hello, goodbye," only for very, very good directors like Jonathan Demme, who asked me to sing this tango in his film The Truth About Charlie (2002). If not, I really take my choices, because I'm too old to say yes to everything, and also, I've done too many good things to go do whatever now.

  

  Anna Karina
  • Film
  • Choices
  • Directors

• I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Trying
  • Film
  • Looks